Sajel Bellon

Sajel Bellon

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Toronto, Ontario

TEDx Speaker - Mental Health, Trauma, Stress and Wellness Expert

Sajel Bellon is the Founder of a company specializing in well-being, human connection and transformative growth for organizations. Sajel Bellon is proud to be able to make a difference in keeping families together and supporting couples in navigating occupational stress and its influence on their domestic relationships.

SAJEL BELLON BIOGRAPHY

Sajel Bellon (Ed.D, CTSS) is an occupational stress and trauma specialist and mental health, professional. She is a professional speaker who specializes in the sciences of well-being, human connection, positive transformation and growth for individuals and organizations.

Sajel Bellon has developed and delivered programs around the globe for a variety of postsecondary institutions and organizations, educating and inspiring others about the benefits of “Co-Creating Cultures that foster Psychological Safety and Connection”, “The Permission to be Human” and “Whole Systems Thinking for Extraordinary Change” to help organizations and families re-define their approach to mental health and its stigma.

Sajel Bellon is an expert in cultivating the space and conditions to improve work-life experiences and relationships, using the sciences of positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, positive organizational development and other modalities. She has created a series of programs, talks and workshops on personal occupational well-being, human connection, resiliency, and rising from trauma and stress. Her hope is to assist organizations, individuals and communities through the sciences of wellbeing and human connection by creating the necessary systemic change to better support their mental wellness, while also minimizing the incidence of occupational stress injuries and loss of life to suicide.

As an adult educator and curriculum developer, Sajel Bellon created Canada’s first Positive Psychology Certificate and Positive Education Certificate programs for Wilfrid Laurier University, where she currently instructs. Internationally, Sajel Bellon continues to design, facilitate and lecture at institutions, such as Central Queensland University, and Champlain College. She is an expert in organizational change, human-centred design and behavioural science professor and connects what is going on in the minds of individuals for positive organizational development for a compassionate, resilient, supportive and winning culture.

Sajel Bellon has partnered with global organizations (SAHMRI, WPEA, IPEN) to create highly-innovative and collaborative initiatives. Her philosophy to cultivate human connection fosters success and well-being for those under her leadership and with her in partnership; Together promotes mental well-being as a foundation for better and stronger communities and organizations, cultivating human connection and meaningful conversations.

Sajel Bellon is a member of the Association for Registered Psychotherapists and Mental Health Professionals (O.A.C.C.P.P), Association of Trauma Stress Specialists (A.T.S.S) with a designation of Certified Trauma Service Specialist, International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and Global Speakers Federation.

Sajel Bellon has served as a Board Director and Conference Chair for the Canadian Positive Psychology Association (CPPA). Her passion and research span various organizations including the emergency services, on the topics: “Resiliency, Post-Traumatic Growth and Mental Wellness. She offers services for individuals, teams and leaders to leverage their strengths and resources when it comes to addressing and promoting mental wellness and preventing occupational stress injuries and trauma within their organizations.

She is a pioneer in creating links in integrating families and community partners to enhance support and healing for the prevention and recovery processes. This includes networking, educating and helping other mental health professionals and therapists, to gain a better understanding of the unique culture of their service. She is a thought leader as a mental occupational stress and trauma specialist, with a deep understanding of managing challenges and changes through a diverse lens.

Beyond her professional capacities, it’s her personal experience of being the spouse of a professional firefighter and having extended family members belonging to police and EMS which brings a high level of connection and understanding. Sajel Bellon believes that mentoring and collaborating with other mental health providers to enhance their services and deliverables to better suit the needs of the emergency services population will increase accessibility to better meet increasing demands.

Her vision for integrated mental health, education and systemic culture change has been proven to be innovative and designed to be systemically sustainable. Seeing the realities of unique workplace cultures firsthand as well as the associated occupational stress and post-traumatic stress injuries that can result from consistent exposure to trauma gives her an authentic perspective which resonates with her audiences and workshop attendees. Sajel Bellon shares her story along with proven strategies on how to navigate this journey successfully while keeping your most important relationships intact and moving towards a life of flourishing.

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the power of heroic conversations

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  • This talk exposes the ripple effects and realities of occupational stress and trauma that many high-risk sectors, like first responders and their families face. Interweaving personal experiences through evidence-based practices to enhance human connection, HEROIC conversations offers audiences simple, effective ways of de-stigmatizing their mental health cultures at work and home.

inspired positive organizational development - from evolution to revolution

resilient - re-think, re-new, re-energize

well-being matters

unleashing the power of connectivity

leading with compassion

stress res-q

Testimonials

Sajel’s depth of knowledge and skill as an enthusiastic speaker engaged our members throughout her interactive session.

Keynote Attendee

Sajel’s workshop and expertise were SO powerful and inspirational. She is an excellent resource!

Workshop Attendee

Sajel creates a safe space for her audience and clients to share. She facilitates productive discussion and reflections to embrace being human.

Workshop Attendee

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and learned a tremendous amount in a relatively short time period. I know I will be further applying this information to my daily work life, as well as my personal life.

Workshop Attendee

Edmonton Police Force

Sajel is an expert in psychology with both an academic background & personal life experiences. She is able to take a complex subject matter & break it down into understandable pieces. Sajel has practical easy-to-follow exercises to engage the audience. She asks deep probing questions that quickly get to the root of the issue & dissect the issue until it is resolved. Unlike some academics, Sajel is approachable and understandable. She loves sharing her knowledge & experience for the benefit of others.

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